{"id":2527,"date":"2022-02-16T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T22:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greatblueheronrv.ca\/?page_id=2527"},"modified":"2022-02-16T18:07:17","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T00:07:17","slug":"great-blue-heron-in-flight","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/greatblueheronrv.ca\/?page_id=2527","title":{"rendered":"Great Blue Heron in flight &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/greatblueheronrv.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/in_flight-2022.jpg\" alt=\"Great Blue Heron in flight\" class=\"wp-image-2537\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greatblueheronrv.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/in_flight-2022.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/greatblueheronrv.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/in_flight-2022-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/greatblueheronrv.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/in_flight-2022-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/greatblueheronrv.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/in_flight-2022-140x94.jpg 140w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Great Blue Herons have a wide wing span of up to 7ft and slate blue and grey flight feathers. \u00a0They can soar and glide like eagles and migrate very long distances in winter, to Mexico, the Caribbean and as far as South America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you spot a Great Blue Heron in flight this summer you may also hear it\u2019s distinctive call, a loud distinguished croak. \u00a0Great Blue Herons are found in most of North America, including Alaska. \u00a0Watch out for them while camping in Saskatchewan this summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Photo taken by&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.greglasley.net\/\">Greg Lasley, Wildlife Photographer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great Blue Herons have a wide wing span of up to 7ft and slate blue and grey flight feathers. \u00a0They can soar and glide like eagles and migrate very long distances in winter, to Mexico, the Caribbean and as far as South America. If you spot a Great Blue Heron in flight this summer you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2537,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatblueheronrv.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2527"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatblueheronrv.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatblueheronrv.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatblueheronrv.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatblueheronrv.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2527"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/greatblueheronrv.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2587,"href":"https:\/\/greatblueheronrv.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2527\/revisions\/2587"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatblueheronrv.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatblueheronrv.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}